As an illustrator I have multiple creative streams I'm comfortable with.
_ Cartoon, Caricature, Meme - traditional or digital
_ Mascot Development: animal, person, object
_ General illustration: love landscapes, dynamic action figures, rendering in lots of color,etc
_ Children's illustration
_ Environmental Illustration: landscapes, planning spaces,
_ Technical Illustration without the perfect measurement like CAD and yet with freehand ability
_ Patent & Prototype Illustration
_ Expert traditional sketch artist
_ Poster Illustration with a love for Typography
_ T-shirt Illustration: good sense for breaking an image down to 1-3 colors with graphic flair, pattern useage, Typography arrangements
_ Logo Development: sense for what best depicts and the font(s) that match, several options in sketch stage
Usually I see a couple ideas from the get go. With client input & some research, Thumbnail Sketches work wonders for quickly narrowing in on the right direction. Sketch stage comes next with variations or directly working a chosen image. Final art is either traditional (watercolor, pencil, acrylic. mixed) or digital thru Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop. A few revisions per stage are part of my service package. Additional revisions/directions incur an extra cost usually discussed as they arise.